Neither rural nor suburban, Exurbia is often Trump country and where Democrats need to drive up their numbers.
David Masciotra
David Masciotra, a contributing writer to the Washington Monthly, is the author of several books, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy and I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters. His Substack is Absurdia Now.
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The Trump Values Crisis
The new president’s policies are bad enough, but the worldviews that undergird them are the graver problem from the front lines to the family dinner table.
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The Clinton Post-Presidency and its Discontents
Since 2001, the Arkansan-turned-New Yorker has been a global force for good, but the Right and their dupes in the press corps don’t see it.
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How Francis Fukuyama and “The Big Lebowski” Explain Trump’s Victory
Looking at constituencies or issues misses the big point. On Tuesday, nihilism was on display, even a death wish, in a society wrought by cynicism.
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Can America Survive as a Multiracial Democracy?
The late Ronald Tataki’s history of multicultural America roiled academic waters 30 years ago. It turned out to be prescient about the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
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Tavis Smiley Is “Increasingly Concerned About the Monopolized America We Live In”
Tavis Smiley: “I’m becoming increasingly concerned about the monopolized America we live in.”The broadcast journalist opens up about race, his L.A. radio station, corporate concentration, and the covenant with Black America.
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Joe Conason on How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked Conservatism
Joe Conason on How Grifters, Swindlers. and Frauds Hijacked Conservatism. In his new book, the journalist explains how cons from Trump University to the Build-the-Wall ripoff became central to the MAGA creed. A conversation.
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Hillary Clinton, Truth Teller
Hillary Clinton, Truth Teller: Republicans, the media, and plenty of Democrats were shocked—shocked!—to hear her say anti-Israel protestors don’t know Middle Eastern history and to suggest prejudice might animate a large swath of Trump voters.
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The Cost of Exaggerating the Gaza Protests
Some campuses were riven by demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war, but most, as the Monthly has noted, were not—including mine in Indiana. The cost we all pay when the mainstream media fails.
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Hubert Humphrey’s Liberalism for Our Time
“Liberalism always finds itself beleaguered at a moment of radical polarization,” journalist and historian James Traub writes in his deft and thoughtful biography of Hubert Humphrey to be published next month. While the right wing has organized around the destruction of liberalism and the far left denounces liberals as gutless sellouts, Traub argues that studying […]
